Word: skittishness
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Crumbs into Cakes. Of course, there may be reason to wonder why a politician with any thought for his future would even want a place on the next G.O.P. national ticket. To be sure, Viet Nam and a skittish economy may considerably erode Lyndon Johnson's strength by 1968, and there are politicians who believe that the President's personal unpopularity could lead to his defeat. To Javits, whether Johnson is beatable or not is irrelevant. As he sees it, the G.O.P. is obliged to put up a strong fight if it is to lay a base...
...pleasantly arrogant young Briton and his pretty, skittish twin sister are unwittingly trapped in the warfare between a cell of Black Muslim-type activists and a clutch of Negro-baiting neoFascists. Eventually the twins bob up at an international Fascist jamboree atop Mount Parnassus, where the Negroes attack the Fascists in their meeting-tent, then rape and murder the sister. The hero escapes to go home to pamphleteer in the cause of tolerance, and to get himself happily married. "The answer to everything," he concludes, is contained "within the magic of reciprocal love." Author Benedictus' discursive, Edwardian elegance...
...aluminum wrap, paints his hair silver, and devotes eight hours of "underground movies" to such hitherto unexplored subjects as the depths of man's sleep or the height of the Empire State Building. Edie Sedgwick is his constant companion, an electric elf whose flashing chocolate-colored eyes and skittish psyche make her a perfect star for his slow-moving movies...
GUNSMOKE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In an episode called "Thursday's Child," shy, skittish Jean Arthur makes her TV debut, her first performance anywhere since...
...Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish soldier afflicted with an untimely burp, and assorted psychopaths...